Canada. A Ymca Cap Badge With Spirit Body Mind/Px Design consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac light crazing on the leather

light crazing on the leather tab

above a swastika flanked by laurel leaves

and the properties of the steel used to manufacture the M1917 helmet shell

the reverse with a central depiction of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order

854 women served with the Canadian Army Medical Corps as Nursing Sisters during the five years of the war

Canada. A Ymca Cap Badge With Spirit Body Mind/Px Design consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac light crazing on the leatherIn browning copper with red enamels, measuring 42 mm (w) x 43. 8 mm (h), both lugs intact, one of which is slightly bent back, intact enamels, extremely fine. Footnote: The Canadian Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in France was a unit of the overseas military forces of Canada, with an authorized establishment of officers and other ranks.